About this course

Proficiency Area: Learning.

The capacity for advocacy success is an organization’s ability to develop, assess, and improve its policy and advocacy efforts specifically related to moving its mission forward.

In the first lesson toward your gold Merit badge, you'll explore:

  • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivational levers related to advocacy work.

  • How to understand your audience's level of knowledge about your mission and your work.

  • How advocacy action planning differs between 501c3 and 501c4 organizational structures.

  • Advocacy action-planning best practices.

Course curriculum

    1. What you can expect

    2. Before we begin...

    3. Motivation in Advocacy Success Lens

    1. Getting Motivated to Advocate for Your Mission

    2. Advocacy Action-Planning

    3. Check your learning

    1. Getting (and Staying!) Motivated about Advocacy Success

About this course

  • Free
  • 7 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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